The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-06
SOUTHERN GL.EANlNGs.

EA-oBuauOf spencer, OF AlaDaua, tllnKS
that the Southern boom business is being
'overdone.
John d. Sheehan has been acquitted at
Laurens, S. c., of the killing of Bishop,
last July.
At trial at the Clay County (Ga.)
Court, the other day, two witnesses were
put open the stand who did not know who
made them, had never heard of Heaven or
hell, and did not know whether a lie was
right or wrong.
Yellow fever lies may be counted on I'M
til the middle of September. Memphis has
just knocked lie No, / on the head. Yellow
fever never entered the Mississippi valley
except via New Orleans, and the latter city
is as free form that malady this year as
Quebec.
South Carolina has effected sale Of
10000 acres of pasture land in Berkeley
County to a stock raising company of
Charleston men. Some Northern capital
lists have bought a tract of 10000 acres in
the same part of the State at one dollar
per acre, and are negotiating for the pur-
chase of $4,000 acres more at the same price.
The timber on these lands is worth at least
ten dollars per acre. A company is to be
organized and large saw and planning mills
erected.
Miss Theresa Wall committed suicide
few days ago by jumping in the well at
the residence of Mr.. N. G. Parker, in Mon
roe County, Tenn. She belonged to one Of
the first families in the county, and in a
letter left in her room explained that the
cause of her rash act was disappointment
in love.
The soap and candle factory of Fabel &
Sons at l. ouisville, KY, was burned a few
days ago. Loss, $4,000; insured.
The officials of Shreveport, La, are tack.
ling a knOtty questionable equalization of
taxation on property.
The jury in the case of john L. Fits and
Richard Fits, at Owensboro, KY, for the
the murder of the four-year- old child of
Alex. Johnson, after being out eighteen
hours, returned a verdict of not guilty.
A break in the ammonia coil in the salt
tank of the Shreveport (La.) ice factory,
caused almost an ice famine in that place
recently. A demand was made on the
northern ice companies, but they could not
suffice, with the accent on the ice.
A fire at Georgetown, KY, few days
since, destroyed seven buildings in the
principal business block Of town, including
blb OulCG Vi tuc 4 HttS newspaper lOJdl
loss estimated at $4,000.
A freight train containing seventeen
thousand watermelons, "fresh and fine,
just from the vine," left Valdosta, Ga, a
few days since and reached Boston after
making the run Of 1890 miles in seventy
five hours The melons were in good con-
diton.
Georgia has prohibition in 1l5 of her 1877
counties, and claims to be in better tenn
perance standing than either Maine or
Kansas.
c. j. Litel, a Braethitt County (Ky.)
lumber merchant, was arrested a few
nights ago at the instance Of Marion Chill
ders, an Indiana contractor, who charges
that Litel made away with $1,000 worth of
county bonds that he gave him to sell.
The Glen bill, recently introduced in the
Georgia Legislature, providing for sepa-
rate white and colored schools and for a
sharp drawing of the color line in other
public matters, has created intense indig-
nation among the negroes of the State,
who are making strenuous efforts to secure
its defeat.
The Alabama Legislature has passed a
law disqualifying for service after August
/, prox., as locomotive engineer, fireman,
train conductor, brakeman, station agent,
flagman, gate-tender, or signal man, all
persons affected with color blindness or
, loss of visual power.
John Pickett, moonshiner, shot and
killed his wife few nights ago on Wal
denis Ridge, fifteen miles from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, because she refused to ac-
company him to his still. The murderer
escaped. OfiCers were securing the coun-
try for him.
, The seventh annual Mississippi State
t Prohibition convention assembled at Jack
son last week. Thirty-one counties were
represented by regular delegates and
several by proxies-about forty in all. The
meeting was composed of representative
men. Bishop Galloway of the Methodist
Church was the presiding officer.
Work on the Alabama, Florida & At.
r lantic road has begun, and the contractors
! are pushing it forward vigorously. Over
. $50 hands are now at Sorrento, Orange
/ County, engaged in cleaning the right Of
o way and grading. Double that number
will soon be employed. A portion of the
southern division will be in operation this
winter.
. A st. Louis paper is responsible for tn,
3 statement that an agent of the Southern
Methodist Church, just returned from {
u trip through Southeastern Kentucky re
ports that out of seven county seats visit
v ed, five have not now and never had 1
\ church building of any kind.
9 Cora Miner, aged eighteen, daughter o
:, II. c. Miner residing at Oradell, nea
Mount Pleasant, La, died few nights ag,
from the effect of dose of strychnin
l, taken with suicidal intent. She had beer
sick for some time, which is the only caus
= known. 1t was not known that she haC
= taken poison until she sent for the doeto
y herself, and begged him to give her al
&c emetic, as she has taken strychnine. Sh
then wished to live, but il was too late.
K Policeman Douglass, Of Chattanooga
, Tenn. shot at his partner, Policeman Dun
can, n few days ago while standing on tn,
street. There was no cause for the shoot
y ing. The bullet missed Duncan, bu
Douglass was standing so close when h,
L., fred the shot that Duncan's face was bad
Ie ly burned with powder, and one grain o
&C / nOvrder yvas iubeddpd in his right eve